The Sun. — London, England, 1864-06-22 00:00:00

R OYAL ITALIAN OPERA, Covent-garden. There will both in this week and in next week be live opera nights, viz., Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and hatarday. Extra Night, Mlle. Fr'eci, Madame Didiee • M. Faure, Signor Ciampi, ignor Ronconi, Herr Schmid, and Si. xtor Tamberlik. TO- MORROW EVENING (Thursday', June 23, will be perforn ed, for the last time but one this season, Mozart's opera, in two acts, DON GIOVANNI, with the follow ng . mwer f u i & Ist :—Donna Anna, Mdlle. Fried; Zeriina, Mdme. bidiee ; Madame Rude] adorff ; D u n Giovanui, M. Faure ; L epois ello, Signor Ciampi ; Masetto, Signor Itonooni; 11 Commendatu.Te, Herr Schmid; and Don Ottavio, signor Tamberlik. The minuet will 1 danced by Mdlle. Salvioni and M. espiaces. condoctor, Mr. Costa. Commence at half past Eight. Pit tickets, 75.; amphitheitre rto Is, 103. 6d., 75., and ss. ; omphitheatre. - 2s. 6d. Boxes, stalls, and tickets may be had at the box-office under the pom ico of the thea!re, which is open from ten to five, and at the principal musicsellers' and librarians'. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Last Two Weeks of the Sulweriptlon. GRAND EXTRA. BIGBT• Third Appearance of Madame Harriers-Wippern, ROBERT LE DIABLE. THIS EVENING (Wednesday . , Jane 22, will be performed geyerbeer's chef-d*ceuvre, ROBERT LE DIABLE. Signori Gardoni, Bettini, Fecea ifirst appearance this sea son), Gassier, fiossi ; Mesdames Liebhart, Morlacchi, and Barriers- Wippern (third appearance in hngland). Conductor, Signor ARDITI. Commence at Half-past Eight. To-morrow Evening (Thured Jr, June 23d.—Positive Pro duction of FIDEL 10. Friday Morning next, June 24th.— Grand Combined Per formance in kid of the Funds of the Royal Academy of Music Saturday, June 25th.—Second Night of FIDELIO. °flea. Gounod's celebrated Opera, FAUST, will shortly be re,eated. Pit Tickets, 75.; Reserved Box Seats, 108. 6d.; A mp hi. theatr3 stalls, ss. and 78. ; Gallery, 28. 6d. ; Private Rixes, in the Upper circle, 21s. Box Office of the Theatre open daily, from 10 till 6, where places may be secured ; also at Mitchell's, Bubb's, Lacon and 011ier's,Bond-street ; Leader's , Opera Colonnade ; Sam's, St James's-ttreet ; Cramer, wood , and Co.'s, and Ha mmon d' s : Regent-street ; Keith, PrOWBe, and Co.'s, Cheapside ; and at Chappell and Co.'s, 50, New Bond-street. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. FRIDAY MORNING NEXT, June 21th, GRAND PERFORMANCE Mader the Most Illustrious Patronage), combining all the Eminent Artis es, Orchestra, and Chorus of Her Majesty's Theatre, in All) of the FUNDS of the ROYAL ACADEMY of MUSIC. Doors open at Half-past One. Commence at Two o'clock precisely. Prices —Grand Tier Boxes, £4 4s. ; One Pair, £3 35. ; Pit Boxes, £3 :s. ; Two Pair, £2 128. 6J. ; Half-Circle Boxes, £1 is. ; Orchestra Stalls, each, £1 ls. ; Reserved Box Seats, Sc s. 6d. ; Amphitheatre Stele, 7s. and ss. ; Pit, ss. ; Gallery, 2s. 6d. Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets may be had at the Box-office of the Theatre, open aily from ten Ha .Ix. 11/11-IEATRE ROYAL HA YMARKET.- Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr, Buck - stone. THIS EVENING, THE BALANCE OF COMFORT. Mr. Howe and Miss L. Angel. After which, DAVID GARRICK. Messrs. Sothern, Chippendale, Bnckstone, Rogers, Clark, Weathersby, &c.; Mesdames Snowden, Nelly Moore, Fitzwilliam. Followed by (for - the 9th time) LORD DUNDREARY MARRIED AN].) DONE FOR. To conclude with TitTRNING THE TABLES. Mr. Compton, Mr. Howe, &c. • • - Commence at 7. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Sole Management of Mr. Fechter. Last 4 IsTights of Hamlet and the present Season. Mr. FECHTiat will perform HAMLET THIS EVENING (Wednesday). Claudius, Mr. Emery; Polonius, Mr. John Brougham ; Ghost, Mr. G. Jordan ; Laertes, Mr. C. Vanden heff ; Hoiatio, Mr. J. G. Shore; First Gravedigger, Mr. H. Widdicomb ; Osric, Mr. F. Charles ; Messrs. W Wlntyre, F. Morton, Raymond, Moreland, Clifford, Edmonds, Wall bank, Collett ; Ophelia, Miss Kate Terry ; Actress, lass M Henrade ; and Gertruie, Miss Elsworthy. The Scenery painted by Mr. W. Telbin. Notice.—The doors open athalf-past 7, and Hamlet com tences at S. Box Office open daily from Eleven o'clock till Five. R OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.— Sole Lesee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. 4 THIS EVENING will be performed a new and original Drama, by R. Slone, Esq., entitled LIGHT AND SHADOW. Mr. D. Murray, D. Fisher, J. W. Ray, J. Nelson, Sze.; Miss Stafford and tuiss Caroline Carson. After which, THE CORSICAN BROTHERS. Louis and Fabien dei French!, Mr. Vining; Chateau Renaud, Mr. Walter Lacy. NIE IV THE ATRE-RO YAL, ADELPIdI.-- 4_ &)1O Proprietor and Manager. Mr. B. 'Webster. THIS EVENING, SHAKSPERE'S HOUSE. Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. R. Phillips. Followed by THE DEAD HEART: Robert Landry (his original character). Mr. Benjamin Webster, ,nppo ted by Messrs. A. :tiding, J. L. Toole, T. Stuart, eaul Bedford, Billington ; Miss W oolgar (Mrs. Allred Mellon), Miss Kelly, 4tc. After which, TfIE AREA BELLE, with a Norrible Tale: 3lessrs. J. L. Toole, Y. Bedford, tt. ItomerMiss Woolgar, and Dirs. IL Lewis. Commence at 7. B j aYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, under the Management of IVEr. B. V7EBSTER. Crowded with rank and fashion.— The highly successful new Con2f.dy, by Dien Boacicault ,Esq., every Evening,. Rc engagement of those ce ebraced and popular artistes, Mr. an Airs. Charles Math Cw-e Amongst the artists engaged will be found the Popular mines of Mr. Be;jamin Webster, Mr. Charles Mathews. Mr. Frank Matthews, Mr. J. L. Toole. Mr. Clarke, Mr. Paul liedford, Mr. F. obinson. Mr. Ashley ; Mrs. Chas. Mathews, Miss }L rbert, Mrs. Frank Matthews, Miss H. bimma, Miss A. Cottrell, Miss Fanny Josephs, Miss Patti Josephs, Miso Wentworth, and Mrs. Stir,ing. EVERY EVENING, at 7, A DAY AFTER THE WEDDING. Miss Herbert. At a Wafter before 8, an entirely new and orizinal Comedy, in 5 acts, by Dion Boucicault, entitled THE FOX CHACE. Characters by Mr. Charles Mathews, Mr. Frank Matthews, Mr. J. Clarke, Mr. F. Robinson, Mr. Ash ey, Mr. W. Cbam ,er laine ; Mrs. Chas. Mathews, Mrs. Frank Matthews, and Miss Henrietta:Simms. At 10, by par , icular desire, COOL AS A CUCUMBER. Mr. Charles Mathews. To conclude with SHAKE HANDS : Mr. J. Clarke; Miss Fanny Josephs. Commence at 7. RTHEATRE.OYAL STRAND THEATRE. Manager, Mr. W. H. Swanborough. THIS EVENING, DEAF AS A POST. Mr. Thorne. Followed by THE MAID OIL` HONOUR. Miss Ada Swanborough. After which, MAZOURKA. Messrs. Honey, James, Penton, Turner, &o. ; Misses Marie Wilton, Simpson, &c. To conclude with TIMOTHY TO THE RESCUE. Mr. T. Thorn. Commence at 7. PARIS BONNETS for JUNE.—Messrs. JAY'S Manager has h s day returned from Paris with an Issortment of th,: most elegant and fashionable Summer Bonnets, selected from the magasins of the first houses in that city. JY'S, The London Gene al Mourning Warehouse, 217,219, and 2M, Regent-street. June 1,1864. N OVEL STYLE in FRENCH BONNETS,— French fashion /... -1.. produced Bonnets for this month o f a light go earner texture. which accimmodate the present style of wearingrt au displaying t h e lady ' s h ir. They are of the most exquisite variety, and, though still adhering to the favourite colours of black. white, and neutral, are entirely remodelled in shape, size, and substanc e . Spe,ially imported from Paris for JAY'S, The Lc ::ion General 31 ourninz warehouse , 247, 249, and 251, Regent-street. COALS. —The LILLES HAL f, CO NI PANy, s COALS. Direct from their own Collieries. Marquis'. 235. per ton. Double.. ....... 20 s. p er ton. I Top 225. „ Deep ....215. Well screened and delivered within Jive miles of their De pots, Westbonrne Park-road, W., and 17, South Wharf, Paddington, W., and Maiden-lane, N. Best Coke Terms cash. JOHN SCOTT, Sole Agent. THE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN,' Containing the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, an be had Every Evening of ti. lt. GLhNIE, NEW, AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. The Weather—Sun Office, June 22, 1864. --4.-- THERMOMETER. This day at Two o'clock Barometer-30.05 WIND -s. ; light breeze, and cloudy at times. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tats DA T. — Morning, 3h. 32m.—Afternoon, 3 h. 58 m. rO-140Bacew.-Ilorning, 41. 17m.—Afternoon, 4h. 40w. e 4lO . • , 4C-'ll4l LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 1864. Everything gives' plainer and Plainer indic4tion that the Government have certainty muddled their Foreign Policy—bat more particularly their Foreign Policy in the matter of this miserable Dano-German war—to perfection ! They h ave dune it now—with a vengeance ! But —the vengeance come to them and not from them. It will come to them boil: in the Lords end ate a Commond. And not alone from the side of the Opposition. Patriotic and independent Peers on the Liberal side of the House of Lords, like Earl GREY, will, at this juncture, we may rest perfectly well assured, be quite as uncompr.;misineyoutspoken as the E,rl of DERBY himself, the Leader of the C 3 niervative Opposition: Patriotic and indepen dent representatives of the people, again, ranged on t the Ministerial side cf the House of Com mons—such a thoroughly out-speaking M.P., let us say, as Mr. BERNAL OSBORNE—wiII seize the opportunity now, we may be certain of that, quite as readily, quite as eagerly to condemn this meddling and muddling of Earl RUSSELL'S as be tween the Danes and the Germans, quite as readily, quite as eagerly as the right hon. gentleman the member for Buckinghamshire. Why do we say this, and thus confidently, ut:on the very day set apart for the sitting of the Conference here in , London P Because, simply, upon this vary day, the worst anticipations as to what would ensue from all this pottering and procrastination, from all these delays and mystifications have, so far as any reasonable human being can judge, been to the full realised. On the wings of the lightning, the telegram comes to us Cris afternoon from Frankfort-ou-the-Main, from the old Imperial capital of Germany —and it comes thus and thence as ominously as though in a rolling crash of thunder, heralding a general war in Europe. " Prussia," says the Telegram, " rejects the English proposals relative to the line of demarcation in Schleswig. She also rejects the arbitration of any Power represented at the Conference. Prussia will not recognise the decision of any arbitrator as binding, but will take it into consideration." There is talk, too, about Prussia's readiness to accede to any pro posal for a prolongation of the armistice—but, in that event for a prolongation of not less than two months. Prussia saying this probably from a consciousness that any prolongation of the armistice, much less a prolongation of it for a couple of months, it would be impossible to obtain Denmark's consent to ! Wherefore Prussia babbles about it with an air of safe magnanimity. "It is believed," adds the Frankfort telegram, ' that the last sitting of the Conference will take place to-day, and that hosti lities will commence on Monday. The armistice terminating in due course, that is on Sun day ! From Vienna meanwhile comes another intimation indicative of Austria's readiness (if she can only find a plausible excuse for it!) to back out of a war threatening, at last, to become complicated into, what must prove for her, very formidable dimensions! The Kaisee's hinted wish now being to have the matter here in dispute, so far as it relates to Austria, sub mitted to the arbitration of the Emperor NAPOLEON. Not to the arbitration of England, observe—Eng land, so " fallen from her high estate" under the regime of Earl RUSSELL—but to the arbitration of NAPOLEON! Here, however, the suggestion is blurted out merely through semi-cfficial channels. The notion of arbitration being simultaneously rejected beforehand by Prussia—supp';sing that arbitra tion to be one dreamt of by any Crowned head re presented at the board of this abortive Conference. Altogether, a charming prospect! For which we are indebted mainly, if nut solely, to our own Govern ment. A prospect, in one phrase, be it said, of con fusion worse confounded. It is satisfactory to find that the " Gaols Bill' has been read a second time. It wouid be very provoking if another session were lest and more time wasted without coming to any definite settle ment of this question, end making any alterat:one in a system which so imperatively calls for change. Sir GEORGE GREY showed great discretion in con senting to some of the changes that were proposed and thus avoiding the chance of being defeated in his attempt to get the bill through this stage. It is true that there was a division, but not one which involved any risk. The difficulties that lie in the way of these changes are very great, and one of the chief obstacles is found in the fact that the mention of the case always brings forth the latent prejudices and excites the angry criticism of those who mus t find some fault, and are resolved to put their veto upon the proceedings in some shape or other. Sir G. GREY'S statement was a sensible eseposition of the matter. There are few subjects of legislation which offer more complication than those connecter. with prisons, but that is no season why some reme dial change should not be effected. ." Hard labour" has engaged much of the attention of the committee of the House of Lards, and there seems valid grounds for their engravers to arbitrate on that point. They recommended that there should be a strict defini tion of the term, and this is only reasonable, and a change greatly called for, since it has been found on examination that this part of the discipline has been very much neglected. Mr. ADDERLEY laid great stress on this, and very truly declared that it was imperative to make a decided definition. It is well known to all attentive observers of the subject that if some impassable barriers are not put up advantage will be taken in every direction, and that virtually the effect of discipline is- nullified by the introduction of change, and the laxity too generally observed. It is shocking to contemplate the pictures drawn by those who have visited some of those gaols, and to think of the criminal taking his ease, as it were, while honest poverty is toiling without the prison wall, and wearing out strength, health, and spirits in the weary struggle for exist ence. Doubtless from the best motives and actuated by the kindest feelings, some well-meaning but mistaken individuals have been very instrumental in affording the prisoners every possible relaxation from their toil, end also in giving them many luxuries which, properly speaking, they should never enjoy. It is only by the exercise of a firm Will sad the interposition of a strong hand that these a nomalies can be rectified, and this very un suitable Stated affairs ameliorated. It is well that Mr. ADDERLEY made such a strong point of " herd labour," as that doubtless tended in a great measure to ensure the fulf il ment of the designs of the Com • m ime s After varying considerably in different places, in some prisons hard labour meant nothing at all. is such a course subversive of dis cipline, moat ?rkeora© for a p r i soner t o have iis alsotodo. Mr. ADDE RLEY also insisted on the necessity for uniformity among the gaols, and expressed his opinion that good re sults would certainly follow from this practice. As thi ngs have hitherto been arranged there seems no Conformity to rules, and " in a considerable number o f gaols there were no rules at all, and some rulescont a s ned every possible absurdity that could come into the head of the wildest theorist." This is sure to be the case where attention is not paid to orders—diss crepancies will creep in, and, finally, no one could recognise the proportions of the system as it was originally devised, previously to the omissions and corruptions that have b;en gradually introduced and fostered. It is not the question whether the present plan will be more convenient, more com fortable, or more practicable; but whether it will more efficiently carry out the purpose which it should effect, and more fully develops the scheme of reformation, or at all events of discipline, which it should be one of the first objects of all imprisons enent to realise. Those who cavil at the change pro posed, and animadvert upon the prospect of this alteration, seem to partially ignore, if not entirely to overlook the fact, that the present system is about as faulty as it can possibly be. It is rife with in consistencies, teems with improprie es, abounds in absurdities, and altog e th er has been a reproach to our lawgivers, and a grievance to the community. If the plan is simplified, and the several prisons THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 22, 1864. and gaols are managed in a more uniform system, it is certain that the task of supervision will be simplified, and the general process rendered more satisfactory. Besides, if these changes are not deemed sufficient, when carried into effect, it will be easy to make an addition or alteration hereafter in tie practice, but no mistake can be greater than co do nothing in the way of practical interference and reformatory legislation. The effect produced on all cusses would be generally detrimental, while 'among the prisoners it would exercise a very perni cious influence. Oa all accounts, then, it seems satisfactory that Sir G. GREY has succeeded in so fir carrying this Bill through Parliament, and the moderation he has displayed affords a good hope that he will be able to see it become law before the close of the present session, It is a curious subject for the attentive observer to speculate upon, thin difficulty that we have had in the management of our convicts and prisoners of late years, and the solution will not be readily arrived at. At all events, it shows that there is not progress every where, and that, with all our boasted resources, we often make mistakes and fail to realise results as our forefathers did. It is called a safe extreme one, but experience has shown it to be a very dangerous one to persist in modifying the severity of all prison laws until the dwellers therein come to regard the whole affair very much i❑ the light of a nonentity. The old proverb respecting the month of March has been strikingly exemplified in the case of the Government Annuities Bill. On its first introduc tion the Chancellor of the Exchequer explained its provisions with his wonted eloquence and ability, but in the course of his exposition ho made such song remarks upon the general management of ft iendly societies, and brought in so many per• sonalities, that a storm of opposition was forthwith raised both within and withoat the doors of the House. Hon. members who had been in any way connected with such societies seemed to regard the bill as ,an aspersion on their characters, and they were accordingly ready with word and vote to offer it all the opposition in their power. Outside the Parliamentary walls private interests were not less busy in organising a formidable opposition. Public meetings were got up, and working men were induced to believe that a measure designed wholly and solely for the benefit of themselves and their families was nothing but an unwarrantable attack upon their constitutional liberties. I - Lppily, all has passed away under the magic of a select com mittee, and Monday evening saw the bill which had given occasion to so much attack and defence, mutual recrimination, charges and counter-charges, pass through its final stage, amidst nothing but courtesies and congratulations, exchanges of com pliments, and expressions of goodwill. It is true that some important additions have been made to the measure, and some modifications of it have improved its rower and substance ; but the principle upon which it was originally founded remains the same, now that it has become law, anti consequently there is good reason to congratulate the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the country at large on so valuable an addition to our legislation. The fact is that the bill was so much needed, it offered such valuable facilities to the working man for f E 0 curing the independence of his family, it ends much to protect him against the fraurl a l ent or im provident application of his harp-earned savings, that when impartial and well-qualified j u d ges began to examine into i'as structure there could b e but little doubt of ',P C result. It shows the diffe rence between a party measure and a echeme for the nations', good, irrespective of political conside rations. When the angry feelings too rashly and carelessly exoited by Mr. GLADSTONE had subsided, 4 fair inquiry into the case brought forward such a mass of evidence to substantiate all the arguments en behalf of the bill tact there could be but one result. It is worthy of notice, that in the principal difference of opinion which took place in the cogi tations of the committee, a division took place in which the greater part of those who supported Mr. GLADSTONE'S view of the case were his original opponents, while those on the other aide had been all along favourable to the measure. Mr. GLAD STONE himself cited this singular fact as a proof of the impartiality with which the committee had examined into the matter. The point on which its members were at issue on the occasion referred to was one of considerable importance, and the question was whether the assurance created ander the bill should be a property transferable by law. The Chancellor of the Exchequer took the affirmative side, and it was happily decided in his favour, since many instances might arise in which the operation of such a permissive clause might be very advantageous. Other changes were made in the bill, many of them of a restrictive cha racter, which never had the effect of removing the objections made to it. Mr. hOTHERON ESTCOURT, who at first made many such objections, now ex presses himself as being most anxious for its suc cess. He had feared that the Government was likely to interfere with private enterprise, but the introduction of words limiting any payment made after death to the sum of £lOO quite removed that fear. Tt en he had been apprehensive that the bill would injuriously affect those establishments and associations which are got up and managed exclu sively by working men. Tbie objection was removed by the enactment that no contracts for payments made at death should be for lees than £2O, so that the opposite dangers are guarded against by these two limitation clauses. The stipulation that the tables on which payments are calculated shall be based on a 3 per cent. rate tended still further to remove any idea that the Government scheme would compete injuriously with fairly established indepen. dent companies. Such companies have little to fear from a scheme whose profits are so smal:, whose rat e of interest so low, and whose operation is confined within such strict limits. Oa the other hand, there can be no doubt that it offers most solid and lasting advantages to the prudent and industrious. It is especially useful for young men of the working class, who, before they marry can thus lay up a store and ensure their families from destitution in case of their death. The amount ensured for would enable a working man's widow to enter upon some respectable means of gaining a livelihood, would help her to apprentice her children, to pay her rent, and provide for any other expenses contingent on hEr husband's illness and death. Mr. GLADSTONE decided that the condition attached to savings banks deposits was not applicable to these annuities, so that the fact of (Meting an insurance under this act will not hinder the insurer from depositing any savings he may make in an ordinary savings bank. Working men will not be slow to find out the ad vantages which it offers to them; and we trust it its successf u l operat i on, greatly to may tend, by diminish that distress and destitution which so often adds heavily to the weight of a domestic be reavement in the labouring classes, and the pros pect o f which for those dear to him must often em. bitter the last hours of a working man. A BD-EL-KADER is about take up his reeidence on the estate at Biraboubeblah in the Isthmuv, which has been given to him by the Suez Canal Company. THE ROYAL ACADEMY EXHIBITION NN i!1 be opened in the evening, as cf late years, at the end of the eighth week of its continuance, 011 the 27th inst. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. LREUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] REJECTION OF THE ENGLISH PROPOSALS BY PRUSSIA. FRANKFORT-ON-MAIN, JUNE 22. Prussia rejects the English proposals relative to the line of demarcation in Snleswig. She also rejects the arbitration of any Power represented at the Conference. Prussia will not recognise the decision of any arbitrator as binding, but will take it in into consideration. A prolorgition of the armistice will be accepted by Prussia, bat not for less than two months. It is believed that the list sitting of the Con ference will take place to-day, and that hostilities will be resumed on Monday. AUSTRIA, VIENNA, JUNE 22. The semi-official Vienna papers of this morning are in favour of the arbitration in the Dano- Germanic grestion being submitted to the Emperor Napoleon. AMERICA. QUEENSTOWN, JUNE 22. The Inman steamship Etna, from New York on the 11th inst., arrived here at 5.31 a.m. to-day. She brings 223,836 dole, in specie, 164 mails, and the United States mails. Twenty-seven of her passengers were landed here. The Etna proceeded for Liverpool at 5.4i.".3 Her news has been anticipated. SOUTHAMPTON, JUNE 22. The North German Lloyd steamship New York, Captain - Wenke, sailing hence to-day for New York, with the German, French, and English mails, takes out 118 saloon passengers and A large cargo, including 18 boxes of jewellery from Havre, value £8,940. SAXONY AND THE DUCHIES DRESDEN, JUNE 22, The First Chamber in yesterday's sitting una nimously adopted the declaration of the Chamber the division of Schles w i g . of Deputies opposing CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS, SUEZ, JUNE 21 The Rangoon, with the above mails, reached Suez at 10 p.m., this day, OUTWARD MAILS OF 4TH TO 10TH JUNE. The Simla, with the above mailF, left Suez on Sunday night (19tb.) FRANCE. PARIS, JUNE 22. The Constitutionel of to-day, in an article signed by M. Paulin Simayrac, Stated that the loss of the Alabama has caused great agitation. All the letters from Cherbourg test:fy to the profound regret pre vailing in that town at the event. Tb,o, Constitutionel also adds that from one end of France to the other the sane feeling obtains, and that it is the generous nature of the French charac ter which always urges the nttion to display their sympathy for the weak and their admiration for unfortunate bravery. BOURSE, June 21.—The market continues dull, but with previous prices maintained, Threes, for the Account, being now unvaried at Mr. 6c. Mobilier have sligh t ly receded, having been last done at 1,0621. 60c. Railway Market inanimate. The market closed as follows : per Cents. 93 50 Do. cud month.... Italian Loan 69 65 Do. end month 69 65 Ditto Threes, 43 New Mexican Russian Austrian .. B3 Spanihh Threes 5l 25 Home Debt .. — Deferred reYs. Cash. Account. 866 25 ~ 870 f?t18 50 .. 993 877 50 .. 882 50 3 per Cente - Do. end month 65 05 Credit Mobi Do. end m0nth...J.057 50 Bank BhPrea 3395 Credit koncier 1235 Roman BAIL Orleans • • •• Northern Lyons and i'lcditsrranoan New ditto Southern Western Eastern •••• 00000 216, • • 460 .. 462 50 Sardinian O 366 25 .. 367 60 Austrian Lorr.bard North of Spin Saragossa OO Ditto to Barcelona General Garibadi, The following translation oft letter has been sent to us for publication : TO THE DIRECTOR OP THE '' MOVIMENTO." In the supplement to No. 137 of ycur newspaper, under the head of " England," you quota an article of the Morning Post, to which I feel myself called upon to reply as follows :-- "Political associates and intimate friends,—You would do me a most signal favour if you wotld have the goodness to share with me the deep gratitude that I feel and that I owe to all those Englishmen whom I met and with whom I associated in their noble country, frot the honest sons of labour to the illustrious men who preside over its Govern. went. " Know, then, that I decided uponvisiting England in order to pay her a sacred debt of gratitude, and that I with drew when I thought proper to do so, withrJut any instiga tion whatever. "As to those under whose roof I was an honoured guest, it never be possible fos me to thank them sufficiently for the exceeding courtesy which they so splen didly lavished on me." Be so good as to publish the preceding, and consider me, yours, &e,, G. GARIBALDI. Caprere, May 22. HEALTH OF LONDON. (From the Register-Genera's .Report.) The total number of deaths in London in the week that ended last Saturday was 1,296, The average number for the 24th week in ten years, 1854-63 is, with a correction for increase of population, 1,173. The excess in the present return above the estimated number is considerable—ft amounts to 123. Measles continues t o b e th e mos t p re valent in the epidemic class of diseases. It was f a t a l in th e week in 85 cases. In the second week of May there were 50 deaths from it; in the following week they rose to 87, and since that time the weekly mortality has been of neatly the same amount. Measles prevails ch:efly in the East districts. Six deaths from it were recorded in the Shoreditch district, Tin Bethnal green, 6 in \V hitech a p e l, 7 i n St. George •in - the - East, 9 in Mile-end Old•town, an d 4i n the Poplar district. Five children died of the same disease in the Goswell•street sub district. Three children of a dock labourer, aged respectively 6 months, 9 years, and 12 years, died of measles at 84, Hare street, Bethnal-green, and three other children in the suns family are lying dangerously ill with the same complaint. Diarrlicel now discovers a' slight increase. The widow of a warehou3emen, aged 63 years, died on the 14th inst., at 47, Northampton-road, Cierkenwell, of pulmo nary consumption, accelerated by the want of the necessaries of life. The son of a shipwright, aged 8 months, died on the 11th inst., at 231, High-street, Wapping, from bronchitis, acce lerated by want of nourishment through poverty. A labourer in an oilcloth factory was suffocated when sleeping in a heated room used for drying floorcloths. A boy died from inflammation of the brain caused by a pea lodging in his ear. A commercial traveller, aged 33 years, died from drinking a bottle of French braudy at a draught. A girl, aged 6 years, died of abscess of the windpipe from swallowing a piece of ivory. Last week the births of 912 boys and 864 girls, in al, 1,776 children, were registered in London. In the 10 cor responding weeks of the years 1854 63 the average number (corrected) was 1,856. GRAND NIGHT FETE IN THE PARK OF VER• SAILLES.—On the evening of Sunday, July 3d, will be held at the large Basin of Neptune, in the tenni& cent park of Versailles, the splendid night fete, which has excited very much interest in former years. The beautiful fountains flying in the electric light, the majestic alleys abundantly illuminated with lamps of various colours, an ample display of all sorts of fireworks in the air, and also on the waters, such as to create a magis, unparalleled spectacle which every foreigner visiting Paris sh9uld make a point of seeing. LITERATURE. William Shakespeare. By Victor Hugo. Trans lated by A. Baillot. One vol., pp. 366. Hurst end Blackett. A magnificent rhapsody in glorification of Shak spere has here been penned by the illustrious author of "Les Miterables." Yet—glorification of Shak spare though it is, end issued to the world though it has been in the year of the Tercentenary of the Poet's Birth—the work, as the writer himself takes occasion to notify expressly at the very outset, was originally designed by him to further another pur pose altogether. Considered purely with reference to that first intention of the author's on undertaking the composition of this work, it might be described not inaptly as a grand and proloeged flourish of trumpets upon the issue to the world of Victor Hugo's son's translation into French of the writ ings of Shakspere. Victor Hago himself says of the book—which, as will be seen ebovo, he designates simply upon his title-page " William Shakespeare" that its true title should be Apropos to Shakespeare. Nevertkeless—though he thinks so and says so —we, for one, think not. We regard each of these two suggested titles as distinctly a misnomer. The one of them quite as much a mis nomer as the other : second thoughts for once, litre, being no better than first—the old proverb to the contrary, nevertheless, notwithstanding. Although there are here, for example, upwards of 360 goodly' pages, octavo, it is surprising to find how few of them are dedicated expressly to William Shak spere. Less than thirty recount anew the little there is known in regard to his "Life." That— leading off the first of the Three Parts into which the work is divided ! Part the Second, in its turn, leads off with less than thirty pages about the " genius" of Shakspere. The rest of the book being not so much apropos to Shakspere, as M. Victor Hugo would wish us to believe, as apropos to nearly every great man, ancient, mediaeval, and modern —personages as incongruously associated together in such an astounding gallimaufry of panegyric, as Orpheus and Rabelais, as Job and Kant, as Hermes and Beethoven, as St. Paul the Apostle of the Gentiles and Mootgolfier the sesecneut, as Isaiah and Moliere, as Phitdias and Izekiel, as Socrates and Washington. The whole of this extraordinary composition constituting in effect a sort of incoherent apotheosis of the Human Race as typified in its Representative Men. That there are passages of resplendent eloquence in a work having so wide a range, is only what any one might reasonably have regarded as inevitable, emanating, as the volume does, from the hand of such a master of rhetoric as M. Victor Hugo—him self Poet, Orator, Novelist, Publicist, Critic, Man of. Letters, and Man-of-Politics, if not actually Statesman and Philosopher as well, all rolled into one. Yet—admitting this—recognising the genius squandered over these pages—appreciating to the full the varied intellectual power manifested at uncertain intervals throughout this elabo rate and lengthy monologue—we must still avow quite frankly that we look upon the work as a whole as unworthy alike of its great writer and of the yet greater theme upon which that great writer hae therein so elcquently but so incoherently rhapso dized. As a whole, we repeat, the Book appears to us to be unworthy both of Victor Hugo and of William Shakspere. The author has himself evi denced, as we conceive, his own conscious• ness of the insufficiency of his labours here —where he, candidly confesses that, in all this, he is indulging in a sort of wild extravagance. Asking—when he says so—Why for once in a way he should not be allowed so to do. I❑ other words, it is as though, out of a wilful desire.to indulge in a kind of an intellectual gallop over all creation, he had fairly flung the reins upon the neck of that lightning-eyed, thunder-footed Pegasus of his, which at the first page, as it were, he has bestridden at a boned. Naturally, again, we would even say, ine vitably, while careering thus over so boundless an expanse of themes, the hoofs of this far once wholly untrameiledPegasusofVictor Hugo's, strike thoughts out of the very dust, as it were, now one by one, now in showers and cascades of light—' like sparks into the darkness." Turning lightly, carelessly over these alternately sombre and flaming leaves nomi nally about Shakspere, but really de omnibus rebus et quibusdam alit's, let us catch hap-liszard some of these same fluting sperks of light as they glitter out upon our recognition : " Homer is the huge poet child. The world is barn. Homer sings. He is the bird of this aurora." "Juvenal whips with cutting thongs; Dante scourges with flames. Juvenal condemns; Dante damns." " Music is the vapour of art. It is to poetry what reverie is to thought." " The theatre is a crucible of civilization." " The Greek drama had occasionally strophes as powerful as swords. It rushed on the scene wearing the helmet. It was an ode around saki -pc. Take, however, for once, a longer passage, as af f ording a far more signal illustration of the abounding beauty and eloquence lavished by Victor Hugo upon this wayward and wandering die quisition of his apropos to Shakspere. Take his definition of some omug the countless marvels noticeable in "Hamlet." He has already remarked upon the strange reality which characterises poeti cal creations. Wie:eupon he seizes the occasion to observe that there is no more striking evidence that it is so than this very type — HAMLET. Hamlet has nothing belonging to an abstraction about him. He has been at the University; he has the Danish rudeness softened by Italian politeness ; he is small, plump, somewhat lymphatic; he fences well with the sword, but is soon out of breath. He does not care to drink too soon during the assault of arms with Laertes, probably for fear of producing perspiration. After having thus supplied his personage with real life, the poet can launch him into full ideal. There is ballast enough. Other works of the human mind equal " Hamlet," none surpasses it. The whole majesty of melancholy is in Hamlet, An open sepulchre from which goes forth a drama, this is colossal. Hamlet, is to our mind, Shake speare's chief work. No figure among those that poets have created is more poignant and stirring. Djubt counselled by a ghost, that is Hamlet. Hamlet has seen his dead father and has spoken to him. Is he convinced ? No, he shakes his head. What shall he do ? He does not know. His hands clench, then fall by his side. Within him are conjectures, sys tems, monstrous apparitions, bloody recollections, vene ration for the spectre, hate, tenderness, anxiety to act and not to act, his father, his mother, his duties in contradiction to each other, a deep storm. Livid hesitation is in his mind, Shakespeare, wonderful plastic poet, makes the grandiose pallor of this soul almost visible. Like the great larva of Albert Darer, Hamlet might be named "Melan cholia," He also has above his head the bat which flies erabowelled, and at his feet science, the sphere, the compass, the hour-glass, love, and behind him in the horizon an enormous terrible sun which seems to make the sky but darker. Nevertheless at least one half of Hamlet is anger, trans port, outrage, hurricane, sarcasm to Ophelia, malediction on his mother, insult to himself. He talks with the grave diggers, nearly laughs, then clutches Laertes by the hair in the very grave of Ophelia and stamps furiously upon the ccffin. Swordthrusts at Polonius, swordthrusts at Laertes, swordthrusts at Claudius. From time to time his inaction is torn in twain, and from the rent comes forth thunder. He is tormented by that possible life, intermixed with reality and chimera, the anxiety of which is shared by all of us. There is in all his actions an expanded somnambulism. One might almost consider his brain as a formation ; there is a layer of suffering, a layer of thought, then a layer of dreaminess. It is through this layer of dreaminess that he feels, ccraprehends, learns, perceives, drinks, eats, frets, mocks, weeps, and reasons. There is between life and him a transparency ; it is the wall of dreams ; one sees beyond, but one cannot step over it. A kind of cloudy obstacle everywhere surrounds Hamlet. Have you ever whilst sleeping had the nightmare of pursuit or flight, and tried to hasten on, and felt anchylosis in the knees, heaviness in the arms, the horror of paralysed hands, the ittpossibility of movement ? This nightmare Hamlet undergoes whilst waking. Hamlet is not upon the spot where his life is. He has ever the appearance of a man who talks to yeti from the other side of a stream. He calls to you at the same time that he questions you. He is at a distance from the catastrophe in which he takes part, from the passer-by whom he interrogates, from the thought that he carries, from the action th a t h e p er f orms. H e seems no t to touch even what he giind s . I t i s i so l at i on i n i ts h g h es t degree. It is the loneli ness o f a m i n d , even more than t h e loftiness enot of a prince. Ind ec i s i on i s i n f act a sol i tude. Y ou have own v even your will to k ee p y ou company. I t i s as if y self was absent a n d h a d l e f t you there. Theburden of Hamlet is less rigid th an th a t o f O restes , b u t lating ; Orestes c arr i es p re d es ti nat i on , H am let o carriesr ineundu- himf aate. And thus apart f rom men , H am l e t h a s still something which r e p resen t s th em a ll. 4gnosc o fratrem. would have At certain hours, if w e f e lt our own pulse, conscience of his fever. His strange reality is our own reality after all. He is the funeral man that we all ar e in certain situations. Unhealthy as he is, Hamlet expresses a permanent condition of man. Be represents the discom fort of the soul in a lire which is not sufficiently adapted to it. He represents the shoe that pinches and stops our walking; the shoe is the body. Shakespeare frees Lim from it, and he is right. Hamlet—prince if you like, but king never—Hamlet is incapable of governing a people, he lives too much in a world beyond. On the other hand, he does better than to reign ; he is. Take from him his family, his country, his ghost, and the whole adventure at Elsinore, and even in the form of an inactive type, he remains strangely terrible. That is the consequence of the amount of humanity and the amount of mystery that is in him. Hamlet is formidable, which does not prevent his being ironical. He has the two profiles of destiny. In all which there is, as wa take it, much of subtle criticism. As there is also, abundantly dis cernible in other portions of the work, in which the greet French poet descants upon divers other among the marvellous creations cf the Great Poet not of England merely, not of motion Europeans even, but of the vast and countless race of Humanity. Othello, for example, and Cordelia—Falstaff and Macbeth— Portia and lago—with the rest, not alike, but in the widest imaginable way dissimilar. Ina asnauch as the book will, doubtless, ac complish its primary object, it may be pronounced successful. It will, without doubt, verve to lie the general attention both here in Eng land and yonder in France, upon the dawning literary exploit of the author's accomplished son, namely, the latter's translation (for the first time worthily) of the immortal works of William Shak spere. Otherwise, the book here under con sideration is little better than a superb failure. It is so wondrous in art, and yet so flawed and incomplete, that it is more unsatisfactory than a torso just issued as a torso from the hand of some consummate sculptor. It is as if a Praxitilea had presented to the world quite newly from his atelier, just fresh from his wonder-working chise►,aTneseus as marred in form, and yet as marvellous in anatomy (what there is of it) as the Theseus of the Elgin Marbles I No hands—mere stumps ! No feet—egain mere stumps of limbs l Here and there the wondrous surface jagged and splintered. 'The heroic visage itself—noseless ! As faulty, yet as noble,in its outline is this august, yet, at the same time, this grotesquely incomplete elfigtes of Shakspere. We read it at once provoked and delighted. It seems at one and the same moment—all through—to captivate our imagination and to outrage our judgmeet. And it is significative of the unsatisfactory bearing of the whole of this oratorical rhapsody in honour of Shakspere and of a good many others besides Shakspere, that it closes the enumeration of the great names the author therein especially desires to eulogize by the mention of one so holy and so divine, that the mere allusion to it here among. those who, in spite of their won drous genius, are, after all, the mereest mortals, sounds to us, reads to us, startles us, torments us like nothing less than a flagrant and certainly a wholly uncalled-for profanity. Southern Independence, Last evening a public meeting was held at the Town Hall, Ashton-under-Lyne, "to take into consideration the propriety of memorialising Go vernment to at once acknowledge the independence of the Southern States of Americe." The chair was occupied by Dr Lees. Abcut 800 people were present. The Chairmen said that the crisis at which American affairs have now arrived justified the people of this country in expressing an opinion on the subject. The present attack upon Richmond, by General Grant, was the fourth or fifth that the Northern army had made; and if it failed the time would then arrive when European Governments should step in between the combatants, The Chair man concluded by reading a letter from the Rev. J. P. Hoppe, Dukinfield,who expressed sympathy with the Southern States.—Dr Vernon moved a resolu tion affirming that the time had come when the people of that town were entitled to express an opinion on the matter.—Mr. C. Brook seconded the resolution, which was carried by a large majority. —The Rev. F. H. Williams moved a resolution ex pressing an opinion that the Southern States had justly won their right to a Government of their own choice; and that the timely recognition of such right by the Government of England, followed as it probably would be by other European Go vernments, would, under the present cireumetaecee, tend to hasten the conclusion of the unjust and cruel warfare which is being waged by the Federal against the Confederate Government; and that meeting accordingly respectfully submitted to her INlrjesty's Ministers the propriety of taking such steps to that end as they might think prudent in concert with other European Powers. Be also moved that if the resolution was carried, it should be forwarded to Mr. Lindsay, M.P., in order to strengthen his position when he brought forward his promised resolution on ttis subject in the House of Commons- He said that after three years of strife, during which the success and gallantry of the South had been every day manifested, and whose cause had been illustrated by such men as Jack son, ihauregard, the gallant but bloody Longstreet, and Captain Semmes—(applause)—it was time the cause of the Confederates was recognised. The professed neu nay which this country had pur sued was, as Mr. Bright described, a "friendly neutrality," but, unfortunately, it was on one side ; and it was but an illustration of that neutralit) which this country witnessed the other day when the Kearsage sunk the Alabama with shells manu factured in Birmingham, and cannon forged in thi. arsenals of England. (Hear, hear.) If the recog nition was granted, it would be followed by a renewed prosperity to the people of Ashton, and by an extension of free trade principles to the Southern States. Mr. E. Hemingway eecondeei the motion, which was carried amidst loud an. piens°. On the motion of Mr. G. Mellor, seconded by the Rev. R. V. Mecdona, a vote of thanks was passed to the chairman, and the proceedings, which lasted little more than an hour, terminated. The Etna has arrived from New York with £244,767. The foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon w.r€ lather lower. An arrangement was completed yesterday for the union of the banking firms of 11Zes,2rs Glyn, Mills, and Co., and Messrs. Carries and Co. The united business will, after the 30th inst., be carried on, at 67, Lombard-street, user the firm of Glyn, Mills, Curries, and Co. The share certificates of the Provincial Banking Corporation are ready for delivery in exchange for the bankers' receipts. MR. COBDEN AND THE ROCHDALE REFORM ASSOCIATION.—The following letter, in reply to an address frora the Rochdale Reform Association, has been forwarded by Mr. Cobden to Alderman Stewart :—" London, June 14.—Dear Sir—l am duly favoured with your letter, enclosing the resolution of the general committee of the Rochdale Reform Association, informing me of the intene Lion of the Conservatives to bring forward a candidate at the next election. I have since had the opportunity of reading the very full and frank explanation of ray opponent's views Oh public affairs, and I consider it creditable to him that, at a time when it is the fashion to ende.tvour to efface the old division lines of political parties, and to inculcate the theory that there is no loriger any difference in the opinions of public men, he has scorned that spirit of com promise, and givan expression to views of such a nature as to afford a. very clear and intelligible issue between him and myself. An electoral contest, when great principles which purify the political atmosphere are at stake, is an ordeal not wholly unprofitable, and I accept with cheerfulness my share of the coming struggle, leaving the i T ss t u a e n w ki i n th grnost confi dence in the h ands of the constituency, cor di a lly the body over which you preside f or it s h earty assurance of support, I remain, dear Sir, yours, &e., RD. COBDEN." TUE EFFECTS OF WAR.—A native of Worcester, writing to his brother in that city, gives a brief but perfect picture of indiuidual loss during the present terrible war in America I have m a d e no thi ng d ur i ng th i s war b y my hara-earned labour, but, on the contrary, have lost all my property. rely farm was in the valley of Miision Ridge, and a part of the battle ground. The fight was over my pro perty, and destroyed my fine house, stable and barn. The waggons and live stock were taken by the soldiers. My fence round 15 acres of land was also destroyed ; and still to make it worse, I lost all my timber land, so that I have not a tree left to make a fence rail. All is a perfect waste, and desolation reigns around that portion of country which was previously so fluurishing. The land is no use to m e now. Ido not think I shall do anything it with any more ouch is my bad luck. 1 did not save a piece of furniture or a rag of clothes ; I did not save 25 cents worth of all I had in this world.'—Birmingham Peet. t - 14 et,g .tt•- , oft. _ itti , • OM r wig-- Orailar. ~,i HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, June 21. The Queen, accompanied by her Royal Highness the Princess Helena, drove out yesterday afternoon attended by Lord Charles Fitzroy. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse, Princess Louise, and Prince Arthur also tock a drive in an open carriage and four. The Earl and Countess De la Warr arrived at the Castle and had the honour of dining w ith her Majesty and the Royal family. The Queen, accompanied by their Royal High ceases the Prince and Princess Louis of Besse, Princess Helena, Princess Louise, and PriI3CESS Beatrice, went to Buckingham Palace this morning, attended by Lady Caroline Barrington, Made• unoiselle de Grancy, Lord Charles Fitzroy, and Lieu tenant-Colonel the Hon. D. Roe. Afterwards Princess Beatrice visited the Dean of Westminster and Lady A. Stanley, attended by Mademoiselle Norelle. Their Royal V Highnesses Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse attended the evening savice at St. George's Chapel on Sunday last. Prince Arthur, attended by Major Elplaiesto se, left the Castle this afternoon for Buckingham Palace, Viscount Palmerston and the Earl of Clarendon ha& audience of the Queen at Buckingham Pal' His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales visited her Majeety. The infant Prince Albert Victor also came to the Palace to see her Majesty. The Queen, accompanied by Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse and Princess Beatrice, left Bucki n g: ham Palace at 6 o'clock and visited their R o y a Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales at Marlborough House. Thence her Majesty proceeded in an open car riage and four to the Paddington Station fo r Windsor Castle, attended by the Marchioness of Ely, the Hon. Mrs, Bruce, the Hon. Horatia St°P . ford, the Hon. Harriet Phipps, Mademoiselle & Grancy, Lord Charles Fitzroy, and Colonel the Hon. D. de Ros. His Royal Highness Prince Alfred accompan ied the Queen to Windsor. !he Marchioness of Ely has succeeded the Cioull tess of Desart as Lady in Waiting. Lord de 'Tablet' and Colonel the Hon. Atigu stu° Liddell have succeeded Lord Rivers and Lieut. General Sir Henry Bentinck as the Lord and Groom in Waiting. The Prince and Princess of Wales. The Prince of Wales, accompanied by Pr ince Alfred, rode out on horseback yesterday forenooh. The Prince and Princess of Wales afterwards took a carriage drive. In the evening the Prince of Wales went to the Adelphi Theatre, attended by Lieut.-Col. lieppel. Recruits for the Army. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—Will you allow me a small space in your columns to correct an error into which " Common Sense" has fallen, in a letter which appeared in The 81,02 yesterday, on the subject of recruits for the army. " Common Sense" argues that the scourge and the brand alone deter men from enter ing- the army. Now as flogging and branding are only re sorted to when all other punishments fail, or, other words, when a man is incorrigibl e , " Common Sens °" would argue that all tho se w h o en li s t, or ra ther who ar e at present prevented fro m en li s ti ng th roug h f e ar of these punishments, are incorrigible ; but no well-conducted ma n ever runs the slightest ri s k of being either fl o gged or branded. The British soldier is taken tar better care o f now than he was 50 years ago. E very indulgence is given to the deserving veteran every encouragement to the aspiring recruit. There must ba a scale of punishment , and that scale of punishment is not severe. It is only when a man has proved himself undeserving of indulgence, and unworthy of milder treatment, that he is flogged as a scoundrel or branded as a deserter, It is not for the Gs , vernment but for the soldiers themselves, by good and steady behaviour, to exterminate the scourge and the brand from the British army. UNCOMMON SENSE, Tuesday, June 21. WIIO'S GRIFFITH ! (From the Owl.) The walls and other public places in the neigh' bourhood of the Metropolis, that are h a bitually Covered with posters conveying much interesting tufcrmation in a type which those who run may read, have for the last 18 months been placarded with the pregnant question— " WHO'S GRIFFITH" ? The question thus immediately addressed to the British Public has naturally given rise to muc h peculation, and hitherto has defied solution. W e believe we are in a position to supply the "svcer• It is to be found in the annals of Parliament. Should, however, any doubt upon the subject still perple the minds of our readers, we would more partiTi: larly call attention to the following notices, %olio appeared on the Parliamentary Notice PelPe r ca Thursday : NOTICES OF MOTION, Mr D. Griffith—To ask whether there would be a ny ob• jection to the whole of the order book being sent to Win bars weekly. Mr D. Griffith—To call attention to the circular issued by the Horse Guards tor the recruiting of the arroY. M r D. Griffith—To move that a select committee be 9 1 ) " pointed to inquire into the practice of limiting the tapP° lnt ment of Postmaster. General to a Peer or Privy Councillor._ Mr D, Griffith—To call the attention of the F irst Lord of the Treasury to the dissati s f a ction that might arise If 1 . ; should appear that, by means of a want of decision at energy. his Government should have failed in bringing tso Danish question to a satisfactory settlement. Mr D. Griffith—On Civil Service Estimates, Revenue Department. Vote 3—To call attention to the neglect o the Post-effice authorities in not taking adv.ivtag e °I ,t)2° d postal facilities afforded by railways between and Devizos. Add to the above the astounding fact that 1\11.D 15 . Griffith on the same evening spoke no less t.h 411 times in Committee of Supply ; that this rellia rkit able statesman, in addition to his herculean Ea r mentary labours, is to be doily seen practising a! Wimbledon with an amount of perseverance ona skill which will insure his being returned as one of gong er! o r he Commons' shooting E.even; and it will, Wet think, readily be admitted that Griffith of the walla can be none other than the hon. memi.Ner for Devizes. SERIOUS ILLNESS of MR. B. SPOONEE', M.P. —lt is with deep regret we learn that our much• respreted townsmen, the senior member for North Ware wieliehire, is seriously ill. The state of Mr Spooner's health is such as to eause the utmost anxiety to his large circle er friends. We are glad, however, to be able to say, from in vines made yesterday, that the hon. member was. a little better, although exceedingly weak.—Birminghani Gazette. t g h e i n s gentlemen THE SINKING OF THE ALAB A M A .—SoIJTHAbir' TON, rues-nay. Capt. Semmes, who was vioit ed b y several early s em fte e r n no in on the fora p co a u rt n o t t ry the re d s a id y e , n le c l e t H ote l few days' repose an d qu i e t, b e i ng in a somewhat 'exhausted state from the wound in his hand and exposure in the water. Mr Mason, the Confederate agent, returned to London hi the 11 30 a.m, train to-day. Great ceriosity is felt as to the whereabouts and condition of the Keareege, res.pectieg which no definite intelligence can be obtained. TRIALS OF NEW .LIFEBOATS.—Yesterd a y S one u satisfactory harbour trials were made wit h two fine lifeboats in the Regent's Canal Dock, Lienehouse,under the superintendence of the officers of the National Lifeboat Institution. One of the lifeboats is 30 feet long, ate s to be stationed at Holyhead, and will, when practicable, be used in conjunction with a steam tug. The second boat is 32 feet in length, and is to be placed at Dove r . Both boats, when tested, showed that they possessed the important qualities of self-righting and self-ejecting; - She water shipped in the operation in an eminent' degree. The Holyhead boat, which is named The Princess of Wa les, is the liberal gift of Joseph Leather, Esq., f Liverpool, who had previously given the Institution th e cost of a lifeboat, end the cost of the Dover boat hod been assiduoti,sl9 collected in Wiltshire by Captain A. J. Re ed, R,N • ha latter boat is called the Royal Wiltshire. There were pl'o: sent at the trials yesterday a large number of persons, Ile eluding Captain Kremen, of the Swedish Royal Navy ' had been deputed by his Government to vi sit England!. with 'ha view of examining some of the Institution's Liteboa Stations. He had already s een several of them, and has , expressed himself highly pleased with their efficiency an d completeness.